I don't think that she broke any pop record, not the best single, grammy wins or nominations, albums sales... nothing.

The days or record-breaking in the music industry are gone, now that piracy is so high.

And, just like almost every pop artist in history, lady gaga will disappear, she had no impact on the industry and the genre, there will be nothing for her to be remembered for.

I mean, BING CROSBY is pretty much forgotten these days, why would lady gaga be remembered?

PS3 still is more expensive

Nothing too unexpected really. PSP 2 should be imminent by the looks of it and the 360 needs something to pick it up, which it will have in a few days when ME 2 releases but how big of an impact will it have?
This will be an interesting year on Vgchartz.

I'm strongly considering using a gift card to get it and turning my PC into a console by hooking it up to the HDTV. The latest cinematic trailer looked pretty damn badass.

OK, you two have now have me going sideways in this thread.

Leo, exactly what are these records that have been broken by this singer you mentioned?

And by record I don't mean an old Milli Vanilli vinyl LP thrown across the room.

You might think she is the best thing since toilet paper - and there is nothing wrong with that - but don't twist the facts.

I don't deny that Sony and MS are reacting to Wii, but even before their reaction is actually deployed, their "classic" business model is still keeping them afloat enough to deny Wii an overwhelming victory, and they are keeping their feet in both camps, successfully managing to keep on their side the part of hardcore gamers that aren't Nintendo fans. I see more likely that some poorly managed SW houses get badly burned by disruption, not having Sony's or MS' shoulders. If you don't believe me, you should believe numbers, the new market is roughly the same size of the old one and weekly sales aren't changing this situation, so the old market can't be marginalized and made niche or disrupted, unless the current situation radically changes. Your possible objection that disruption can take a lot of years to fully happen clashes with the generations discontinuity: when next gen starts, the current leader will have undeniably a strong position, but almost nothing granted, as Sony can teach us (but also Nintendo itself), while its competitors are given almost the same new chances. And don't forget that MS is ready to lose billions in the short term to damage its competitors and grab as much market share as it can, with the perspective of widely recover the investments in the long term (but on this side, Nintendo 1st party's incredible strength protects it from almost all the effects of a possible MS moneyhatting to subtract exclusives).

And then there are 3rd parties, a lot of which still not understanding Wii and so hurting themselves, indeed, while Nintendo happily occupies the space they refuse to take, but also providing a lot of fuel to the incumbents, either right now with "classic" games, buat also possibly in the future embracing Arc and Natal more than WiiMote and Nunchuck because PS360 lets them also show the fruits of how much they invested in lush graphics (and yes, I know most people, including me, prefer gameplay to graphics, but consider their point of view, they heavily invested on them, not showing them would mean losing all that money for nothing, while using them, now that they paid them, can mean luring that share of graphics whores and recovering at least some of the investments).

and "according to plan" they will fail miserably ... ?

What Malstrom fans FAIL  to understand is that Christensen describes what happens when the incumbent miserably fails its counter attacks while the disruptor is successful in most of its attacks, but he never said or wrote that the incumbent is always unavoidably doomed to miserably fail nor he said or wrote that the disruptor (Edit: or wannabe so) is always granted to succeed in every move.

360 is domed confirmed